Our department fosters the open understanding of literatures and cultures in English. We promote original work on new questions of history, criticism, theory, and analysis. We invite practices of reading and writing that challenge the ongoing creation of knowledge in our fields. English is among the largest undergraduate concentrations at Brown, and graduates of our Ph.D. program are recognized for their scholarship across the globe. Our nonfiction writing program opens up the useful diversity of styles and modes of writing.
Affiliations
Faculty Administrative Positions
Bewes, Timothy R TNicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, Chair of English
Faculty Positions
Abdur-Rahman, AliyyahProfessor of American Studies and English
Anderson, Amanda SAndrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English
Armstrong, Paul BProfessor Emeritus of English
Bewes, Timothy R TOwen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Professor of English
Bryan, Elizabeth JohnsonAssociate Professor Emerita of English
Burrows, StuartProfessor of English
Egan, James FProfessor of English
Emigh, John SProfessor Emeritus of English
Foley, Stephen MerriamAssociate Professor Emeritus of English
Gandhi, LeelaJohn Hawkes Professor of the Humanities and English
George, OlakunleProfessor of English
Gould, PhilipIsrael J. Kapstein Professor of English
Hardy, EdwardAssistant Professor of the Practice of English
Hipchen, EmilyTeaching Professor of English
Imbriglio, CatherineSenior Lecturer Emerita in English
Jackson, AustinAssistant Professor of the Practice of English
Kahn, Coppelia HProfessor Emerita of English
Katz, TamarAssociate Professor of English
Keach, WilliamProfessor Emeritus of English
Khalip, JacquesProfessor of English
Kim, DanielProfessor of English
Kirk, Elizabeth DProfessor Emerita of English
Kuzner, James AProfessor of English
Lake, NellAssistant Teaching Professor of English
Liu, RebeccaAssistant Professor of English
McLaughlin, KevinGeorge Hazard Crooker University Professor of English
Min, MariahAssistant Professor of English
Murray, Rolland DAssociate Professor of English
Nabers, DraytonAssociate Professor of English
Parker, Benjamin WAssociate Professor of English
Quashie, Kevin EProfessor of English
Rabb, Melinda AllikerProfessor of English
Rambuss, RichardHenry Merritt Wriston Professor of English
Ramirez, DixaAssociate Professor of English
Readey, JonathanAssociate Teaching Professor of English
Redfield, MarcFlorence Pirce Grant University Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Reichman, RavitAssociate Professor of English
Rodriguez, Ralph EProfessor of English
Rooney, Ellen FrancesProfessor of English and Modern Culture and Media
Rush, ElizabethAssistant Professor of the Practice of English
Russom, Geoffrey RProfessor Emeritus of English
Schapira, Kate JAssociate Teaching Professor of English
Scozzaro, ConnieAssistant Professor of English
Smailbegovic, AdaAssociate Professor of English
St Armand, Barton LProfessor Emeritus of English
Stanley, Lawrence KTeaching Professor of English
Stewart, Michael HAssociate Teaching Professor of English
Talusan, GraceAssistant Teaching Professor of English
Taylor, ElizabethDistinguished Senior Lecturer Emerita of English
Ward, Robert PAssistant Professor of the Practice of English